Luke 13:34

Modern English Version

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing!

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:26

“Nevertheless they became disobedient, and rebelled against You, and cast Your law behind their backs, and killed Your prophets who had warned them to turn back to You. But they committed terrible provocations.

Nehemiah 9:30

For many years You endured them and warned them by Your Spirit in Your prophets, yet they would not listen. Therefore, You gave them into the hand of the people of the lands.

Psalm 149:2

Let Israel rejoice in his maker; let the sons of Zion be joyful in their King.

Psalm 17:8

Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings,

Psalm 36:7

How excellent is Your lovingkindness, O God! Therefore mankind seeks refuge in the shadow of Your wings.

Psalm 57:1

Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me! For in You my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of Your wings will I take refuge, until these calamities pass by.

Psalm 81:13

“Oh, that My people would listen to Me, and Israel would walk in My ways!

Psalm 91:4

He shall cover you with His pinions, and under His wings shall you find refuge; His faithfulness shall be your shield and buckler.

Isaiah 30:15

For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. Yet you were not willing,

Isaiah 50:2

Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called, was there no one to answer? Is My hand so short that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; Their fish stink because there is no water, and die for thirst.

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain I have smitten your children; they received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.

Jeremiah 26:23

They brought Uriah out of Egypt and led him to Jehoiakim the king, who slew him with the sword and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

Jeremiah 35:14

The words of Jonadab the son of Rekab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed, for to this day they drink none, but they obey their father’s commandment. However, I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you did not obey Me.

Jeremiah 35:17

Therefore thus says the Lord God of Hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the disaster that I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them and they have not listened, I have called them and they have not answered.

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus says the Lord: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths where the good way is and walk in it, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, “We will not walk in it.”

Lamentations 1:16

For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears; for the comforter, who should relieve my soul, is far from me. My children are desolate for the enemy has prevailed.

Lamentations 4:13

This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who poured out in her midst the blood of the righteous.

Hosea 11:2

As I called them, so they went from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to idols.

Hosea 11:7

My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they called to the Most High, none at all exalt Him.

Joel 2:23

And children of Zion, exult and rejoice in the Lord your God, because He has given to you the early rain for vindication. He showers down rains for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.

Zechariah 1:4

Do not be like your fathers to whom the former prophets cried, “Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Turn away from your evil ways and deeds!” But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, says the Lord.

Matthew 22:3

and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding, but they would not come.

Matthew 22:6

the rest took his servants, treated them spitefully, and killed them.

Luke 15:28

“He was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and entreated him.

Luke 19:44

They will dash you, and your children within you, to the ground. They will not leave one stone upon another within you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

Luke 23:28

Jesus turned to them, saying, “Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? They have even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers,

Acts 7:59

They stoned Stephen as he was calling on God, praying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Acts 8:1

And Saul was consenting to his death. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem. And they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

Deuteronomy 32:29

Would that they were wise, so that they understood this, so that they would comprehend their future!

Deuteronomy 5:29

O that there were such a heart in them that they would fear Me and always keep all My commandments, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

Revelation 11:8

Their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.

Ruth 2:12

May the Lord reward your deeds. May you have a full reward from the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”